Dire wolf
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| phylum | Chordata | The dire wolf "fearsome dog" is an extinct carnivorous mammal of the genus Canis related to the smaller extant gray wolf. It was most common in North America and South America from the Irvingtonian stage to the Rancholabrean stage of the Pleistocene epoch, living 1.80 Ma—10,000 years ago, persisting for approximately 1.79 million years.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Carnivora | |
| suborder | Caniformia | |
| family | Canidae | |
| genus | Canis | |
| species | C. dirus | |
| Temporal range | Early Pleistocene Holocene |
